Security News > 2023 > April
Threat actors are flooding the npm open source package repository with bogus packages that briefly even resulted in a denial-of-service attack. "The threat actors create malicious websites and publish empty packages with links to those malicious websites, taking advantage of open-source ecosystems' good reputation on search engines," Checkmarx's Jossef Harush Kadouri said in a report published last week.
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Today's human-run scams aren't limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. A smart scammer doesn't want to waste their time with people who reply and then realize it's a scam when asked to wire money.
Over one million WordPress websites are estimated to have been infected by an ongoing campaign to deploy malware called Balada Injector since 2017. The massive campaign, per GoDaddy's Sucuri, "Leverages all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities" to breach WordPress sites.
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This includes three high-severity flaws in the Veritas Backup Exec Agent software that could lead to the execution of privileged commands on the underlying system.
Global 5G wireless connections increased by 76% from the end of 2021 to the end of 2022, reaching up to 1.05 billion, and it will touch a mark of 5.9 billion by the end of 2027, according to Omdia and 5G Americas. Global 5G connections are forecast to accelerate in 2023, approaching 2 billion and reaching 5.9 billion by the end of 2027.
People reveal more personal information when you ask them the same questions a second time - according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The research team say that understanding why people disclose personal data could help inform measures to address the problem.
About 90% of respondents hailed automation as a crucial technology for their business because it improves efficiency, allows them to take on more clients and generates more revenue by automating common processes like endpoint management, monitoring, patching, ticket resolution and even cybersecurity. 64% of the executive and 54% of technician respondents picked automation, including auto-remediation of tickets, as their top remote monitoring and management feature.
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